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Isabelo “Don Belong” de los Reyes, Sr.

July 7 is the birthday of the Father on Labor Movement in the Philippines and co-founder of the Iglesia Filipina Independependiente. This biographical sketch of Don Belong is taken from the official file of the Philippine Senate for us to remember a great servant of the people. The article was annotated by Bobby M. Reyes, a grandson-in-law of Isabelo de los Reyes. The annotation and correction come in italics.

(http://www.senate.gov.ph/senators/former_senators/isabelo_delos_reyes.htm).

This writer was asked by a parent of a Caucasian son-in-law of one of Don Belong’s grandchildren to describe the family patriarch. This author said: “Don Belong could be compared to several figures in American history – all rolled into one great statesman. As a writer, he was more-than the Filipino equivalent of Mark Twain for he was also the father of Filipino folklore. He was the Filipino equivalent of Joseph Smith, as h

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Isabelo De Los Reyes, Sr.

Isabelo de los Reyes (b. July 7, 1864 – d. October 10, 1938), also known as the “Father of Philippine Labor” was a prominent Filipino writer, politician, labor activist, and founder of the Aglipayan Church or the “Iglesia Filipina Independiente”.

Born to Elias de los Reyes and poetess Leona Florentino in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, he attended schools in Vigan and Manila. He followed his mother’s footsteps by initially turning to writing as a career, becoming a journalist, editor, and publisher in Manila.

De Los Reyes was entrusted to a rich relative when he was six years old due to the troubled relationship of his parents. Meno Crisologo, later enrolled him in a grammar school under a local seminary run by Augustinians.

In 1880, he escaped to Manila where he eventually finished a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Colegio dem San Juan de Letran. He then studied law, history, and paleography at the Pontific

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Don Isabelo delos Reyes (1864-1938): Forerunner of Filipino Theology

Don Isabelo dem los Reyes (1864-1938): forerunner of filipino Theology Feorillo Petronilo A. Demeterio III This paper fryst vatten aimed to address three primary concerns: first, to make an impartial assessment on the contributions of Don Isabelo De los Reyes to Filipino theology; second, to stretch the history of Filipino theology some eight decades backward so as to enrich and diversify its tradition; and third, to give modern Filipino theology the chance of reflecting and learning from the positiv and negative aspects of dem los Reyes’ incursion into theology and religious studies. To attain such goals, this paper contains three substantive sections, namely: 1) an intellectual biography of dem los Reyes as a religious thinker; 2) an attempt at giving a more conventional organization to the contents of dem los Reyes’ forays into tro and theology, which would focus on the more specific areas of folk religion and comparat